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A Sci Fi piece of life in a Totalitarian future where we are robbed of names, but one's soul can reminisce with another about watching the film, "The Misfits"

Poem first published in "Greg in Hollywood"

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Clock on. You’re being paged,
A year, a movie reel. Tin sealed
It in, a nice cool quiet slumber.
That was the life!
We were “The Misfits”. Montgomery
Clift. Marilyn, at their good ripened
Cheese stage, one the thin-skinned
Punch drunk poet, the other tender as ever.

Off the set, their personal worlds
Were crumbling, human, a surplus of
Dichotomy. Now,

On the wall, projected flat cut outs,
Two figures writhe: Clark Gable and his
Horse, a rope between tethering both.
To wrestle the majestic and have
The toughness be sensitive-----

To get dragged, dodge hooves, then
Bring down the stallion bucking, is
To know wildness has dignity:
Gable, bleeding, winded, honoring
Respect, cutting Pegasus loose. On
The road, driving back, Monty, in my mind’s
Eye, a stray to be held, Clark and Marilyn,
A pair dissimilar but oddly connected by some
Dog and three horses in front, the car, a
Seed pod, the wind, a runway, home-delivered
By the largest star in all of that black, and us,
Just a couple of screen hounds equally searching
For meaning amid a sticky floor and creaking
Velvet seats…

Oh movie buff, matinee chum, can you dare
Envision, remember?
I can and speak of it.
Instead of a number,
We each had a name

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from Choral Soliloquies (II), released May 21, 2017
from FreeSound.org, contributors I.D. from site

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Stephen Mead Albany, New York

A resident of NY, Stephen Mead is a published outsider artist, writer, maker of short-collage films and sound-collage downloads. If you are at all interested please place his name in any search engine in conjunction with any of the above-mentioned genres for links to his multimedia work and merchandise. To order CDs via VISA or PayPal please visit stephenmeadmusic.weebly.com ... more

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